Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:02:21 +0000 From: bugzilla-noreply@freebsd.org To: bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: [Bug 295997] Improve docs, manpages and mountpoints around multiple /dev/gpt/efibootN and /dev/gpt/gptbootN Message-ID: <bug-295997-227@https.bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/>
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https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=295997 Bug ID: 295997 Summary: Improve docs, manpages and mountpoints around multiple /dev/gpt/efibootN and /dev/gpt/gptbootN Product: Base System Version: 14.4-STABLE Hardware: Any OS: Any Status: New Severity: Affects Some People Priority: --- Component: bin Assignee: bugs@FreeBSD.org Reporter: michaelo@FreeBSD.org This is coming from Bug 294338 and my experiencing installing a brand new HPE ProLiant server with ZFS mirror on two disks: Installation: When the installer creates GPT partition tables onto mirrored or ZRAID'd disks, it also creates the ESPs and assigns them labels: efibootN where N is the counter for the amount of ESPs (disks). An entry in the fstab is created for the efiboot0 label (first one) only. The otherones aren't even mounted. This isn't mentioned not visible why the rest is not mounted as /boot/efiN. Updating boot code or installing EFI applications on all ESPs requires mount/umount through all disks. For consistency reasons one would expect fstab would contain /boot/efi0, /boot/efi1, and so forth for every single disk beating part of zroot. Maybe this also applies to UFS, but I have never used UFS outside of HW RAID where only one bootable UFS drive exists. Documentation and manpages: There several ones like upgrading notes, likely handbook and loader/uefi-related manpages which only mention /boot/efi and nothing else, no mention of other possible ESPs in the system. Upgrade/modification instructions apply to efiboot0/gptboot0 thus /boot/efi(0) only. Here I would expect that docs and manpages would consistently mention that boot code needs to be updated/installed on ALL affected ESPs or freebsd-boot partitions which can be used for booting the system. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.home | help
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